Part IV. Animal figures / Carla Freccero. Part I. In History. Varieties of psychoanalytic experience / Madelon Sprengnether ; Recognitions: Shakespeare, Freud, and the story of psychoanalysis / Catherine Bates ; Rivalry and the favorite child in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion / Margaret Ann Fitzpatrick Hanly ; Encountering invisible presence: Virginia Woolf and Julia Duckworth Stephen / Katherine Dalsimer ; Dislocating the reader: slave motherhood and the disrupted temporality of trauma in Toni Morrison's Beloved / Jean Wyatt -- Part II. In Society. Remembering violence, and possibilities of mourning: psychoanalysis, partition literature and the writings of Sa'adat Hasan Manto / Zehra Mehdi ; Latin American violence novels: pain and the gaze of narrative / Beatriz L. Botero ; A man and his things: Bruce Chatwin's Utz / Adele Tutter ; The uses of literature and psychoanalysis in contemporary reading groups / Josie Billington -- Part III. In Sight. Frames of mind: comics and psychoanalysis in the visual field / Emmy Waldman ; Psychoanalysis and children's literature: spotlighting the dialogue / Ellen Handler Spitz ; Reflections on psychoanalysis and class: Andrea Arnold and Donald Winnicott / Vicky Lebeau -- Part IV. In theory. Why literature? Why psychoanalysis? / Jeremy Tambling ; Beyond the fragmented subject / Lisa Ruddick ; The brokenness of being: mourning in queer theory and literature / Mari Ruti ; Animal figures / Carla Freccero.
Summary:
"The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Psychoanalysis explains the link between literature and psychoanalysis for students, critics and teachers. It offers a twenty-first century resource for defining and analyzing the psychoanalytic dimensions of human creativity in contemporary society. Essays provide critical perspectives on selected canonical authors, such as William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, Toni Morrison, and James Baldwin It also offers analysis of contemporary literature of social, sexual and political turmoil, as well as newer forms such as film, graphic narrative, and autofiction. Divided into five sections, each offering the reader different subject areas to explore, this volume shows how psychoanalytic approaches to literature can provide valuable methods of interpretation. It will be a key resource for students, teachers and researchers in the field of literature and psychoanalysis as well as literary theory"-- Provided by publisher.
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